Kennesaw, February 10, 2026: Mahendra “Mick” Patel has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging that Cobb County law enforcement and prosecutors wrongfully charged and jailed him for nearly seven weeks following a widely publicized incident at a Walmart store in Kennesaw last summer.
The lawsuit was filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia by attorneys from Milberg and Radner Law Group. It names an Acworth police detective, the Acworth Police Department, the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office, and others as defendants. The complaint alleges malicious prosecution, deprivation of liberty without due process, selective prosecution, and related constitutional violations.
According to the filing, Patel was arrested in July 2025 after a brief interaction inside a Walmart, where a shopper, Caroline Miller, accused him of attempting to kidnap her young child. Patel was charged with criminal attempt to commit kidnapping, assault, and battery, and was denied bond, resulting in 47 days of incarceration at the Cobb County jail…